Fostering Care is a nonprofit healing school for youth aging out of foster care.

We are healing the healers of tomorrow.

Within our three-month healing intensive, participants will receive modalities and therapies to treat trauma, strengthen immune and neurological systems, as well as fortify self-esteem and the corporeal. By completion, the participants will have also had the opportunity to earn numerous healing-trade certifications; David Elliott Breathwork teaching certification, CAST: Zero Abuse Project,Community Resilience Model (CRM), Food Handlers license, OSHA, Peer to Peer Support Certification, Trauma-Resilient Professional (TRP) w/TREC, & Siddhayoga - as well as high school and college credits through our accredited Learn4Life classroom. Thus, enabling them to continue the healing processes as a trade in our vast, post-graduate, career pipelines.

To access the greatest amount of youth interested in this vital curriculum and post-graduate careers, Fostering Care has created strong relationships within the Department of Mental Health, Child and Family Services, Disability Rights, CA., and the Department of Justice.

As safety and security are vital in healing trauma, we have partnered with local transitional housing groups to secure housing for our student body while at our program.

We set our students up for success. Already, numerous important foundations have expressed desire in supporting us upon opening. In addition, we qualify for both the Department of Labor and the Department of Education funding due to our robust trade certifications and accredited classroom.

Fostering Care is partnered with important nonprofits advocating for youth in foster care: Foster Nation, Children’s Action Network, Didi Hirsch Mental Health Foundation, Hope Grounds, First Star, Hillsides Recovery Center, and Trauma Resource Institute, to name a few.

Fostering Care graduates exit into strong post-graduate career pipelines, allowing for them to utilize the power and potential of their lived experiences, becoming self-realized peers with the goal of living prosperous, purpose-driven lives.

What Our Supporters Say About Us

Stuart Sovatsky PhD, Emeritus President atpweb.org, Fostering Care Advisory Board Member:

“With 53 years of counseling and agency directorship experience, I can sincerely say that Ms. Featherstone's youth program and teamwork at the highest level in an area of the greatest needs with great intelligence and love. I wholeheartedly endorse her for any grant or other endorsements that she seeks.”

-Johanna K.P. Greeson, PhD, MSS, MLSP, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania:

“…Fostering Care, a holistic, nonprofit healing school for youth aging out of foster care in Los Angeles. The school is contributing to halting the negative outcomes that so many youth who age out of foster care experience, including homelessness, incarceration, and human trafficking. Moreover, the school is also very importantly training young people in healing modalities, so that they leave school with a trade/occupation that will enable them to achieve self-sufficiency. Fostering Care will truly transform these young people’s lives, giving them the potential to live vibrant, healthy, and prosperous lives, by playing a part in the healing of others and feeling the empowerment that comes from being a contributing member of society.  

This type of school does not exist elsewhere. Therefore, the approach has never been tried before and it is needed now more than ever. The global pandemic has horrifically impacted young people who age out of foster care.”

 -Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Fostering Care Advisory Board Member 

“The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the world and her situation in it. All too often, these ill-conditioned implicit beliefs become self-fulfilling prophecies in our lives. We create meanings from our unconscious interpretation of early events and then forge our present experiences from the meaning we’ve created. Unwittingly, we write the story of our future from narratives based on the past...Mindful awareness can bring into consciousness those hidden, past-based perspectives so that they no longer frame our worldview.”

-Dawn Griffin, PhD. Founder, HOPE Grounds:

“Fostering Care…By redefining the support youth in foster care receive to include ongoing support networks, connections, and a sense of community, addresses the fundamental need for belonging and stability that many aging-out foster youth lack. This approach aims to fill the gaps left by traditional systems and helps individuals navigate the challenges of adulthood with a stronger support system in place.”